Reading passages

95 -The passage tells us that the march to 
Pampanga Province-.
A) started after the prisoners had tried to escape 
B) ended at a prison camp after nearly a week
C) was led by thousands of Americans and Filipinos 
D) cost the lives of 55,000 Americans and Filipinos 
E) was stopped when everyone was too ill to go on 
96 -The author implies that by the end of the war, 
----- .
A) fewer than one-fourth of the original prisoners 
were still alive 
B) only the Filipino prisoners had survived the 
ordeal 
C) the Japanese had murdered all of the captured 
soldiers 
D) the remaining 40,000 soldiers continued to help 
in the war effort 
E) no one had come to help the survivors at the 
prison camp 
New research suggests that among smokers who get 

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18 
lung cancer, women are nearly twice as likely as men 
to develop the most deadly form of the disease. 
Experts say that the British study represents the first 
time scientists have discovered a significant 
difference between the sexes in the risk of small -cell 
lung cancer. Virtually always caused by smoking, it 
is the 
hardest form of lung cancer to treat successfully. The 
study showed that women under 65 were 1.7 times 
more vulnerable than men to small -cell lung cancer, 
which spreads so rapidly that by the time it is 
diagnosed, it is usually too late to operate. 
97 -The most deadly form of lung cancer ---- .
A) is more likely to develop in men than in women 
B) accounts for 17 percent of deaths among women 
under the age of 65 
C) is more common in Britain than anywhere else 
D) is caused by smoking in rare cases 
E) tends to spread too quickly to be treated by 
surgery